Column No.6: Top 3 things getting my goat in Nigeria today
No, I do not own a goat, as some of you humorously inclined readers are likely to surmise from the above title of today’s piece. It is merely usage of
Column No. 6
A weekly column by Abdulkareem Baba Aminu, which touches on general issues
Column No.6: An ‘escape’ from Togo in retrospect (IV)
I tried to keep calm while bringing out some cash and the soldier was irked by what he felt was my slowness. “Give me money!” he bellowed in a thunder
Column No.6: An ‘escape’ from Togo in retrospect (III)
Being used to the empty streets of Lome by now – save for the odd burning tyre, or two, or three – we half-expected to see the highway deserted. There
Column No.6: An ‘escape’ from Togo in retrospect (II)
We happened by a group of at least eight border patrol personnel, so suddenly that it seemed to me they simply materialized right in front of us by wa
Column No.6: An ‘escape’ from Togo in retrospect
Sometime in April of 2005, I travelled to Togo as part of a monitoring team for that country’s presidential election. For those who can remember, it w